Psychology

Journal 6
Mary Anne was the childhood sweetheart to a medic Mark Fossie. He gets her to the camp where she learns many new things. She is a very fast learner at Vietnam and starts to understand the language and learn how to cook. A few deaths strike and she immediately goes to fix the bodies. She repairs arteries and shoots morphine. She basically becomes one of the men when she cuts her hair short like all the veterans.
Mary Anne loves the war and everything about it. She refuses to go home and stays as long as she possibly can. She is told to go home but insists on staying and even goes missing a few nights. They get engaged but then realize that there are complications with the relationship as she then disappears.
Mary Anne begins to become distant. She returns a few weeks later and seems to ignore Fossie. Fossie overhears her singing and decides to go into the room to find out what she is doing. She has a necklace made of human tongues that she wears around her neck. She tells Fossie that she is fine and the he doesn’t understand Vietnam the way she does. She was loved by everyone at their company. Mary Anne later perishes in a cross fire.
To me Mary Anne is crazy because of the way she had acted after staying at Vietnam for a little while. She seemed to become nuts ignoring her love, and doing really crazy things such as singing with that tongue necklace. To me she was going insane, even though she seemed to like Vietnam and apparently truly find herself.